5.3 PTR: Battlefield Barrens Rewards and Currency Overview

Patch 5.3 introduces a new world event, Battlefield Barrens, that explores the conflict between the Alliance, Horde, and Garrosh. There's a ton of stuff to do and collect as part of this event--but it's only around for a limited amount of time.

Vanity Items

The screen gets progressively more tinted over 20 seconds, then fades back to normal.

Griftah's Authentic Troll Shoes: This item can be transmogged onto any cloth, leather, mail, or plate item for that same slot. It has an invisible boot texture and makes players look barefoot.

Whole-Body Shrinka': This item greatly shrinks the player, while also reducing their run speed and damage dealt. It lasts for 3 minutes and is broken upon mounting.

Sen'jin Spirit Drum: A player can summon the three spirit drums, which any player can click on and play.

Xan'tish's Flute: These snakes follow the player for a minute--players can a variety of solid and striped snakes. Named after Xan'tish in Orgrimmar, whose pet snakes were taken away by the Kor'kron in 5.3.

Latent Kor'kron Armor

Latent Kor'kron Armor can be bought from the quartermaster--it also has a very low chance to drop in the Northern Barrens. The armor pieces are BoE, but the Radical Mojo needed to transform them into wearable armor is BoP. The armor sets resemble Dungeon 2 models, so you can save some time farming Darkmoon Prize Tickets. (DKs get a recolor of their classic set, while Monks get a popular quest set.)

Comment by Ederhammer

Comment by pikamaster

May the Barrens Chat revive from his ashes :O ( i miss the old barrens chat :'( )

Comment by scmucas2001

on 2013-04-10T15:27:16-05:00

I know they're marking and manipulating me, but I love Vol'jin more and more with every passing patch, conversation, and interaction.

Comment by Wishblade

on 2013-04-10T15:32:04-05:00

Meh, so far it seems the only thing I care for is the pet... That's a bit sad, hoped there'd be more to this that'd get me excited for it, but there's still time I suppose.

Comment by IcyFrozen

on 2013-04-10T15:58:38-05:00

The Trolls are in open revolt, but so far the screen shots seem to show them standing alone. I find this curious with Lor'themar Theron having made numerous rebellious references (most recently at the end of the Stage 5 cutscene for ToT). I guess over the course of the patch the other Horde races will join the rebellion?

Maybe after the Trolls and Alliance make it nice and easy for them :)

Comment by thaedris20

on 2013-04-10T15:58:43-05:00

Im Hoping there will be more Alliance story as to why the alliance is helping the Horde other than Garrosh is bad.

anyways the rewards look nice

Comment by jaq1010

on 2013-04-10T16:04:59-05:00

The datamined audio for Vol'jin in 5.3 has him say that Lore'themar will be along as soon as he's finished up at the Isle of Thunder, suggesting these events will overlap in terms of lore. As the Sunreavers are mopping up at the Isle, Vol'jin is starting the revolution.

Comment by Smeisqualityfoot

on 2013-04-10T16:16:17-05:00

I assume that's chen stormstout talking, not lorewalker cho?

Comment by TheFlyingHawk

on 2013-04-10T16:42:52-05:00

hrm, I like plan B much more personally...

Comment by perculia

on 2013-04-10T17:43:50-05:00

Oops, yep it's Chen :)

Going to be trying to farm up some more vanity rewards over the next few days, so if you're really curious about an item let me know and I'll try to preview it.

you'd be amazed at how many people took that quote the wrong way. It was meant to be a snide remark on how if we do this, we do it together, which is the way we have the highest chance of success, as if we do this separately, we either have no chance to win, or a higher mortality rate for everyone involved.

He actually is pretty diplomatic to the alliance, and even calls the alliance players friends and allies once all is said and done.

Comment by Geshtar

on 2013-04-10T20:42:25-05:00

Long live Barrens chat!

Comment by Interest

on 2013-04-10T21:53:10-05:00

Lol, something from Griftah. Also I want that body shrinker.

Comment by iamleejn

on 2013-04-10T22:22:39-05:00

He actually is pretty diplomatic to the alliance, and even calls the alliance players friends and allies once all is said and done.

Vol'jin has a history of being a diplomat with the alliance. Way back when in 4.1 Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman were redone, Vol'jin got things done:

He warned the alliance and the horde of the looming threat of the Zandalari.

He got the Blood Elves and the Silver Covenant to work together.

He convinced both alliance and horde adventurers to contain the troll threat.

As long as Garrosh is in power, neither the alliance nor the horde will be safe. He recognizes that the alliance will pick the "evil they know over the evil the don't".

Comment by miguel85nyc

on 2013-04-11T01:41:10-05:00

Really.......Really.......Really.......? Recolored armor? how lazy can blizzard get! When I first heard there was goning to be new transmog gear in 5.3 i got excited, thought they would be pretty sweet looking, maybe troll theme.. but I was wrong..

Comment by felhunter

on 2013-04-11T02:02:19-05:00

Really.......Really.......Really.......? Recolored armor? how lazy can blizzard get! When I first heard there was goning to be new transmog gear in 5.3 i got excited, thought they would be pretty sweet looking, maybe troll theme.. but I was wrong..

since its still PTR im hoping they're adding some new models. but if they stick too these im dissapointed also.

Comment by Angelbless

on 2013-04-11T04:47:02-05:00

More vanity woo hoo o(≧▽≦)o

Comment by Angelbless

on 2013-04-11T04:49:50-05:00

They keep adding cool things without giving us even cooler bag space

Lol that's true...im loosing space, days by days. Too many cool things to store and no more space in bank or bags.

Comment by Oogzy

on 2013-04-11T06:06:45-05:00

Oh my god. That troll model... Why don't the rest of the Zandalari trolls get this model? Such a tease Blizz... Such a tease.